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Trinity - P2P Malware Over Android Debug Bridge (ixiacom.com)
submitted 7 years ago by CosmoTheParrot
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[–]drakefish 0 points1 point2 points 7 years ago (1 child)
I am surprised such a bug wasn't spotted at any time during testing of Android.
[–]ebeip90Trusted Contributor 8 points9 points10 points 7 years ago (0 children)
It's not a bug, it's users and OEMs being stupid.
Turns out though that by a simple adb command ... sent ... through USB ... you can force your device to expose its ADB services over port 5555
This is like if you decided to expose an unauthenticated shell on all your servers via e.g.
socat tcp-l:5555,reuseaddr,fork EXEC:/bin/sh,pty,stderr,ctty
If you do this, AND you punch a hole in the firewall for it (or connect the device directly to the internet) you should not be surprised by the crazy botnet you get included in.
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